Many thanks to Croton's own Tom Faranda's Folly for posting this excellent article:
The author, a 26 year old woman, grew up in Wisconsin and lives in the very liberal city of Minneapolis. Your editor has highlighted in RED one of many interesting sentences in the article.
THOUGHTS FROM A HIPSTER COFFEE SHOP BY Alyssa Ahlgren
I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism.
I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.
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There are a lot of young people who feel like this. They are just quiet about it so they don't upset their parents or schools. Once they are older, they will get more vocal.
ReplyDeleteFrom your lips to God's ears. They can also move to that utopian paradise in Venezuela. What a refreshing article from a young person. "Kids" like this, and the members of the local God squad, give me some sense of hope. It's not enough to make pretty sign and march a block and a half for a latte in the name of whatever cause du'jour it is that week. Great job, Alyssa.
Delete“The curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept the virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.”
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She's a very interesting writer and has an interesting background of actual accomplishment https://alphanewsmn.com/author/alyssa-ahlgren/
ReplyDeleteHer article on Accountability is very good. Hard work, meritocracy, and ownership of the rewards of your labor are at the epicenter.
HOPE AT LAST FOR A GENERATION THAT WASN'T EVEN ALLOWED TO GO AROUND THE CORNER WITHOUT A LIFT IN THAT SUV.
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